Rail chair and fastener



W. G. JOHNSON.

RAIL CHAIR. AND FASTBN APPLICATION FILED JAN.12.1914.

Patented Mn. 5, 1915.

Witnesses awn 9% FEAIL CI-Milli, AND FASTENEIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan 5,

iltpfilication filed January 152, 191 i herial E l-o. 81;,711.

o o?! ct /2.0m it may; concern it known that I, VllLLlAM (i. douivsoir, a citizen of the United States, reeiding at @ltlahonia, in the county of Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, have inventcdcertain new and useful Improvements in Bail Chairs and Fastencrsyand I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it up pertains to make and use the some.

'ihis invention relates to improvements in mid chairs and fasteners and the primary object of the same is to provide means for t ll dil tit?

securely clamping the chair on the tie as well as clamping the rail in the chair.

A secondary object is to provide a. device of this character which Will be adjustable to ties of different widths.

With these objects in View, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction and combination as described and claimed and as shown in the drawings Wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of 1ny improved rail chair showing its applicat on; Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof; Fig. 3 1s a vertical sectional iew on line 3-3 of Fig. and Fig.- l is a detail perspective view one corner of my rail chair with the rail removed.

in the drawings the numeral 1. designates a railway tie and 2 a rail of ordinary construction and between. the two is disposed my in'iproved mil chair and fastener.

My A it nticn, as shown in the drawings, comprh. an adjustable bed. plate composed of two sliding plates hand 6 the plate 5 be ing notched out at 7 to receive the reduced end 8 ot the plate ti, both members 5 and 6 lacing provided at their outer ends with depending flanges 9 and a plurality of lugs 10 projecting downwardly from said flange end adapted to engage the sides of a tie. One end of he plate 5' carries av fixed jaw 11 on one end and a stop 12 and a bolt guide 13 on its opposite end for a purpose to appear. The plate 6 is clotted as at 14: at-a point under the edge of the rail flange and a pair of fingers 15inciine upwardly from said plate at the edges of the slot 14 and are adii'ptcd to overlie the rail 2 when it is in position with the opposite side of its flange resting: against a fixed jaw 16 carried by the oppi'isite end of the plate '6.

w hllidal'ily mounted Within the slot 14 and between the fingers 15, is a movable jaw 17 which, as shown has its front end bifurcated as at 18 and serrated as at 18 and its rear end beveled as at 15) for a purpose to appear. A. bolt guide 20 slotted at one end he at 21 rises from the plate (3 at such a point as to permit the beveled face of a cam head to extend through said slot and contact with 'the beveled end 19.0)? the sliding jaw 17. The corn is provided with a stem or bolt 23 which passes through the guide 20 on theplatc 6 and the guide 13 on the plate and has a nut 2-l threaded on its end. A bolt 25 passes through suitable guides 26 and 527 on the two plates 5 and (l and is provided with a nut 28. When now the r-ail. is in place as seenin Figs 1. and t2 and the nuts '24 and 28 are tightened on their bolts and 25, it will be seen that. the'two plates 5 and 6 will be drawn. toward each other until the flanges 9 and the lugs 30 conic into forcible contact with the sides of the tie. Further tightening of the nut 24- will draw the cam head 22 with. its beveled face against the beveled end of the movable jaw 17, thus forcing said jaw into contact with the side of the rail and forcing said. rail. against the jaws 152 nod 16 on the opposite side of the plates whcre it is securely retaincd.

I provide the lugs 10 with holes 30 for the reception of spikes 31 in order to more curely fasten the chair on the tie 2. Al-' though it is possible that these spikes could be driven through the plates 5 and 6 into the top of the tie, I prefer to pass them into the sides thereof so that no water may leak in around them and. rot the tie.

.i'ilthougb l have described my invention with considerable minutencss, as to details, it Will be understood that I do not Wish to be limited thereto except as brought out in the appended claims.

What I claim'is:

l. The combination with a tie, a rail and a rail stop carried by said tie, of a rail fa. toner comprising two clamping members adapted to contact with the sides of said' tie, bolt guides carried by said clamping members, a movable jaw carried by one oat said members and a clamp contacting ele ment adapted to draw said clamp members into engagement with the sides of soid tie and to simultaneously project said movable jaw into engagement with said rail.

2. The combination. with a tie, a rail carsaid jaws ried by said tie, a stop on said tie bearing against one side of said rail, a pair of clamping members adapted to Contact with the sides of said tie, bolt guides carried by said clampingmembers, a guideway in one of said members, a movable jaw within said guideway and a cam headed bolt. for drawing the clamp members together and projecting said movable jaw into engagement with said rail.

3. The combination with a tie having a rail mounted thereon, of a rail chair comprising'a plurality of bed plates, adjustable transversely of said tie, tie gripping lugs carried by the endmost of said plates, a rigid rail gripping jaw carried by one end of said adjustable chair, an oppositely disposed rail gripping jaw movably carried by the other end of said chair, and means for clamping the flange of said rail between sin'iultaneously with the gripping of the tie by said tie gripping lugs.

-l. A rail chair comprising two bed plates, the innermost end of one plate underlying the innermost end of the opposing plate, depending lugs carried by said bed plates, a fixed jaw carried by one end of said first mentioned bed plate, a stop and a perforated lug carried by the opposite end thereof, a

fixed jaw on one end of said opposing bed plate, a guideway and a slotted lug on the opposite end thereof, a movable jaw in said guideway, a bolt having'a eam head contacting with said movable jaw and sliding through said slotted lug and said perforated lug and a nut having a threaded engagen'ient with the end of said bolt.

5. The combination with a tie, a rail carried by tie, a stop on said tie bearing against one side of said rail, a pair of clamping members adapted to contact with the sides of said tie, bolt guides carried by said elan'iping members, a guideway in one of said members, a movable jaw within said -guide\\'ay, a cam headed bolt for drawing WILLIAM G. JOH NSON. Witnesses 

